Photos: Top model breaks her back jumping from the 6th floor of a Dubai hotel to avoid rape & murder

A Russian model has broken her back after jumping from the sixth floor of a Dubai hotel 'to escape from a US businessman who tried to rape and kill her'.

Ekaterina Stetsyuk, 22, from the city of Irkutsk in eastern Siberia, refused to have sex with the man who allegedly held a knife against her throat, she told friends and relatives. However, the unnamed man has reportedly made a counter claim that she attacked him and the model is now 'in custody' in her hospital bed. Unverified allegations have also been made that she was working as an escort in Dubai. This claim was denied by the model's mother, who said Ekaterina had been held with a knife at her throat by an American man before trying to save her life by leaping from the sixth floor of the building, which has not been identified.
The model's friend and mother are raising money by crowdfunding to cover initial £11,000 medical costs in Dubai.